Water mass characteristics in the equatorial North Atlantic: A section nominally along 6.5°N, July 2000

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Sarafanov, Artem ^a   Sokov, Alexey ^a   Demidov, Alexander ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; FLOW OF WATER; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER;

DENSITY; DETECTION METHOD; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SALINITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 38949155876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004222     Document Type: Article

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